Sharon Dewitte News Today

The fact that Black women died at higher rates than other people in the plague indicates "premodern racism" — new study.

NEW RESEARCH carried out on human remains at the Museum of London has found that Black women of African descent were more likely to die of the medieval plague in London. 

The fact that Black women died at higher rates than other people in the plague indicates "premodern racism" — new study.

FFS, BBC. Get a grip. It turns out that structural racism and sexism were major influences on the death toll of the Black Plague in London, according to an article in the BBC....

Bioarchaeologists studied three plague burial sites to research how racism influenced risk of death.

Non-white inhabitants of London died in greater numbers because of the devastating effects of premodern structural racism, according to the research.

Bioarchaeological research finds Black women were disproportionately affected by the Black Death in 14th Century London.

New bio-archaeological research on the remains of individuals who died in Ohio in 1918 suggests that during that pandemic, frailer people were also less likely to survive the novel virus.

Science News: A new study has found that the 1918 Spanish flu primarily affected frail and unhealthy individuals, contradicting the belief that it targeted young an

New evidence from the remains of 1918 influenza victims contradicts a long-held belief that healthy young adults were disproportionately affected during that pandemic more than a century ago.